Why women’s pockets suckwhy womens pockets suck

Women's minuscule pockets favor fashion over function – and it sucks.
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It turns out that women went from having what some might call “superior” pockets to the ridiculously tiny versions we have today. We’ve been asking for better pockets since the beginning of the 20th century, but somehow, not much has changed. What’s the hold up?
You can find The Pudding's pocket eye-opening sizing interactive – made by Jan Diehm and Amber Thomas – here: https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/
If you liked this video, check out this article from Racked on the role of pockets during the suffrage movement: https://www.vox.com/2016/9/19/12865560/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women
And if you’re interested in the long history of women’s pockets you can check out: “The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900” by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux (to be published by Yale University Press in 2019): https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300239072/pocket
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Comments

bruh : JUST GIVE US POCKETS.

Oma Rumunna : The designer that focuses on female pockets will make a fortune.

curious_noon : It's so frustrating that women can't even put their phones in the pocket whereas men are carrying their whole house in their pockets and still have space for extra stuff...
:(

BIRIOS : This is why I wear mom jeans. HAVE YOU SEEN THE POCKETS ON THOSE THINGS I CAN FIT MY ENTIRE HAND

Annabeth Chase : I don't give a fork about fashion.
I just want something convenient, comfortable, and practical.

#Anonymous : I vow on my honor as a future fashion designer, to never make fake or shallow pockets. ✋
And to PUT POCKETS IN DAMN DRESSES!
#FashionANDfunction

Autumn • : At the end when that girl put her phone in her pocket all the way and shrugged i was like “WOW THAT WAS MAGICAL WHERE DID IT GO?”

Corey Louie : *if Apple designed pockets*
We had to leave out big pockets to save space
BUT YOU CAN BUY OUR POCKET EXTENSIONS FOR THE LOW PRICE OF $2999.99

Spaghetti-sama : This is one of the few Vox articles I agree with. There's no reason for women's pockets to basically not exist.

Rainman Slim : The tiny and fake pockets piss me off to no end. And I'm a man, I never have to deal with this. But the fact they exist makes me so goddamn angry!

DoctorWeeTodd : I recall borrowing my sister’s jacket when I was young and finding out about fake pockets.
I don’t know how you women put up with it. If men were given fake pockets we would riot.

Amanda Woehl : #MAKEPOCKETSGREATAGAIN
I tried to stop using handbags and it was frustrating, I never realized how poor pockets are in women's clothing. I still try not to use handbags but if you leave the house with more then you cell phone and your wallet u have to use the purse!
I hate this situation cause I live in a city that its not very secure so a purse make me feel like a easy target and carry things of value like cash or cellphoe in your hand its bad as well.

qwrlrp : And that's why I bring/use jacket any time, sometimes I even tie it on my waist when it's hot just to use the frickin pocket

MysticOceanDollies : Victorian dresses and skirts had huge pockets in them. The Edwardian era skirts also had very large pockets as well. You can fit everything from your purse in them.

ruddy illanes : #makePocketsGreatAgain
I never experienced having no pockets. I bet it sucks

Karim Guled : I'm baffled,there is something called a pocketist?
The world keeps on getting stranger.

Makiko Kotobuki : We need that big pocket back!!! ^o^

WaterFox : I just inside mine out, and cut the seems and make the pockets bigger myself.

M0tt0ri : This was always a joke topic between me and my bf. He never wear a backpack or similar, he is so confident in his pockets, which can fit all he need: phone, wallet and keys. An because of that, he never carry with him tissues, glasses case, water bottles, or any of the extra things that women can carry in our bags. So... If we get something on the way, a book, food... Or even his jacket in a sunny day, it will always end up in my backpack...!
So I show him how japanese guys wear all kind of fashion of men bags, they think in practical, they move a lot.
In the other hand, yes, bigger pockets will be extra help for us.

o k : wait so does this mean I wear women's jeans?

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Toyon95 : We should refuse to buy clothes with insufficient or no pockets! I never buy pants without pockets.

pEt r0cK b0b : this is very true, as I have seen one of my guy classmates stuff 4 agendas in his two pockets.

yos doggo : lmao just press i to put ur things in ur inventory

Emmers Art : Just the other day, I bought these shorts that had pockets *up to my wrists.* it was a fricken miracle

Vardhanam Daga : If clothes were designed for comfort then ideally women's pants should be larger around the hips because their hips are larger than men. But we did the opposite by making that area tight as hell.

Phin Hager : hey, wear a jacket.I am unhappy with the size of men's pockets, so I wear one. I can carry books, sketchpads, a tablet and more.

PumpJack McGee : Just be like early Avril Lavigne and wear cargo pants. She had a pretty cool look back then.